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Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Georgia Hardstark, Karen Kilgariff
5.0

It's only page 115, and I already need to get my thoughts down on why this book is just such fucking magic. I've been crying since pg. 60, so bear with me.
Part of what makes the My Favourite Murder Podcast just so good, is the realness and truths that Georgia and Karen bring to the story-telling. It's about pain, and trauma, and growth. About being gentle with yourself when you Do-not-have-it-figured-out™️. Within the podcast's narrative are these themes of universal truths. Truths that are emphasized with a lot of "fucks", and are audaciously exposed in the sharing of their most intimate moments of pain and growth. Truths that are so completely, and utterly relatable.

Okay finished now, and forming complete thoughts. There were more tears.
Hilarious, powerful, and just consistently good through the whole read. I genuinely believe that good writing comes from sharing vulnerable truths - and this is a fucking truckload of that. Karen and Georgia remind us to keep going for the dream job, to live an examined life, to stay out of the forest (and never blame other who don't), and to NEVER feel anything less that confident about being our weirdest, true-crime loving selves. And at the end of the day, it, OK.

Five mugs of what could be Luminol, out of five. ☕☕☕☕☕